Unless I overlooked it, you don’t mention another person who is connected with Alcala—San Diego de Alcala, who wasn’t born there but died there in 1463, after whom San Diego, California, is named.
I did not know about San Diego de Alcala. Will research. thank you.
According to these sources:
Little is known about Cabrillo’s early years. His nationality was first addressed by contemporary Spanish chronicler Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, who, in his Historia General de los hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas y tierra firme del Mar Oceano, referred to Cabrillo as Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Português. For that reason, most biographies describe him as Portuguese. Still, historian Harry Kelsey, in his exhaustive 1986 biography João Rodrigues Cabrillo, writes that Cabrillo appears to have been born in Spain, “probably in Seville, but perhaps in Cuéllar [curiously, hometown of Antonio de Herrera].” His date of birth was in 1499, but events in Cabrillo’s life lead Kelsey to believe he was born of poor parents “around 1498 or 1500,” and then worked for his keep in the home of a prominent Seville merchant. Anyway, most sources regard him as Portuguese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Cabrillo
Sailing from Navidad on 27 June 1542, Rodríguez Cabrillo began his historic voyage to Alta California; a voyage from which he would not return. On 23 November of that year he was injured by a fall on San Miguel Island, yet continued to explore the north coast of California. Upon his return to San Miguel he died of his injury on 3 January 1543, after conceding command to his pilot, Bartolome’ Ferrer, a Levantine (Valencian).
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/73summer/cabrillo.htm
1543 - His second-in-command brought the remainder of the party back to Navidad, where they arrived on the 14th of April.
- He died on the 3rd of January, off the coast of Southern California, but his burial site is unknown; Santa Catalina Island, San Miguel Island and Santa Rosa Island have all been suggested.
http://www.s9.com/Biography/Cabrillo-Juan-Rodriguez